Hacking the Galaxy S8's Iris Biometric

It was easy: The hackers took a medium range photo of their subject with a digital camera's night mode, and printed the infrared image. Then, presumably to give the image some depth, the hackers placed a contact lens on top of the printed picture...

USN-3265-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity High Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description USN-3265-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3265-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3265-1 advisory. It was discovered that a use-after-free flaw existed in the filesystem encryption subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6348

The hashbindelete function in net/irda/irqueue.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.13 improperly manages lock dropping, which allows local users to cause a denial of service deadlock via crafted operations on IrDA devices...

Apple Patents Technology to remotely disable your iPhone Camera at Concerts

Here's something you'll not like at all: Apple has been awarded a patent for technology that would prevent you from snapping pictures and shooting videos with your iPhone or iPad at places or events, like concerts or museums, where it might be prohibited or inappropriate. The patent, granted on...

Laser Gun to Detect Bombs and Chemical Weapons from 100 Feet Away

In Brief US-based Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity IARPA agency is sponsoring a program to build portable laser sensors that could detect explosives, narcotics and other dangerous chemical weapons from 100 feet away. Dubbed SILMARILS Standoff Illuminator for Measuring Absorbance a...

irplus - Infrared Remote - Customized SSL, Redefined SSL Common Names verifier vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application irplus - Infrared Remote published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

CVE-2011-1180

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the iriapgetvaluebyclassindication function in net/irda/iriap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging connectivity to an IrDA infrared...

£300 Apple Watch might not Work If You've Got Wrist Tattoos

--- Credit: mirror.co.uk If you love wearing tattoos and have one on your wrist, then the Apple Watch won’t work for you. Yes, you heard that right. Apple watch is unable to figure out your blood pressure or even sense your skin contact if you wear the watch on a tattooed wrist. Generally, the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5161

The dissectlog function in plugins/irda/packet-irda.c in the IrDA dissector in Wireshark 1.10.x before 1.10.9 does not properly strip '\n' characters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer underflow and application crash via a crafted packet...

Fedora Update for kremotecontrol FEDORA-2013-13112

Check for the Version of kremotecontrol OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for kremotecontrol FEDORA-2013-13112 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: kremotecontrol-4.10.5-1.fc18

KRemoteControl formerly known as KDELirc is a KDE frontend for your remote controls. It allows to configure actions for button presses on remotes. All types of remotes supported by the Solid module in the KDE platform are also supported by KRemoteControl e.g. with the Linux Infrared Remote Contro...

Fedora Update for kremotecontrol FEDORA-2013-10182

Check for the Version of kremotecontrol OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for kremotecontrol FEDORA-2013-10182 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1877-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1876-1)

Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the way KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine emulated the IOAPIC. A privileged guest user could exploit this flaw to read host memory or cause a denial of service crash the host. CVE-2013-1798 An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's rcvmsg path for ATM...

USN-1877-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the way KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine emulated the IOAPIC. A privileged guest user could exploit this flaw to read host memory or cause a denial of service crash the host. CVE-2013-1798 An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's rcvmsg path for ATM...

Fedora Update for kremotecontrol FEDORA-2013-10130

Check for the Version of kremotecontrol OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for kremotecontrol FEDORA-2013-10130 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ...

CVE-2011-1180

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the iriapgetvaluebyclassindication function in net/irda/iriap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging connectivity to an IrDA infrared...

Malicious Infrared X-Ray Android app infecting users in Japan

Researchers are already warning that malware authors developing more sophisticated attack techniques for mobile devices, using encryption and randomization or hiding malicious code in image files. As analyzed by Symantec a malicious Infrared X-Ray Android application, attempting to lure Android...

Want lunch? Palm it over

Fed up with using swipe cards and PINs for their students’ lunch payments, a school board district in Clearwater, Fla. recently partnered with microelectronic company Fujitsu to use palm vein readers for nearly half of their 102,000 students. Pinellas County School Board District spent $120,000 t...